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Because we are desperate. It's quite reasonable. If you are a crack dealer and a crack whore comes to you for a fix, the crack whore doesn't have much leverage in negotiations.

We need help. We can't get help without UN suppport (because that's what India and Pakistan and Turkey require). Therefore, we do what we must for UN support.

We have plenty of resources to defeat armies. We don't to occupy nations. It is absolutely a failure that we didn't line up help from other nations to support us in the occupation before the war. It's harder now to get help (with the affirmation that these foreign troops would be in harm's way) than before when such a notion was just speculation and not a fact. We've also hurt our military, too. Don't be surprised to see recruiters having to work harder to meet their quotas-- particularly for the National Guard.

"We need help"

The only help we need is a large Arabic-speaking police force. France and Germany don't have these resources. The Iraqis will (and already are) providing this police force.